Voting is now open.General Contest Rules:- All stories submitted between 12:00am October 1, 2021 UTC and 11:59pm October 31, 2021 UTC that fit the topic criteria will be accepted.
- Stories can be submitted to any of the story writing boards (this excludes the Roleplay boards); non-English stories will need an English translation linked to them, which must also be in the relevant story section, in order to be accepted.
- Stories must be started in the month stated, and listed here for submission before month's end.
So, by Millie's (90lbsofdynamite) request, I am putting up the details of this month's contest early, so that those who want it can get a head start.
So I was thinking about this month's topic. I was originally going to go with a horror theme, but then I realised the majority of stories would probably end up in Extreme, so that was backburnered. Then I thought, "What's a big thing that happens around Halloween? Mazes!" So I decided on a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style story. Then that seemed a bit of a broad stretch, so I've put that one back (rest assured, it'll pop up again in the future).
Then Persephone started talking about Backrooms. For those not in the know, it's a web-based ARG.
At the time, I was not in the know.
So I thought (remember I hadn't been corrected at this point), "We really haven't fleshed out much of the University's own lore. I mean, we have the pic thread, but no real stories." And I decided that would be this month's topic.
Now, I know that RU doesn't really have a lore of its own; it's just the name of the site. But we've talked about the fictitious campus in intros and the
Schoolgirls of Ravishment University thread, so I think this'd be a good time to flesh out the University as an entity in its own right.
So that's this month's contest. Write a story about campus life at RU. If you're stuck for an idea, here are some things that have been talked about:
- The old part of campus, where less than savoury types (even by our standards) lurk;
- The university farm;
- The student accomodations;
- The school's exchange program with its Japanese sister.
You have between the times stated at the top to write and submit below. Again, to keep things clean here, any questions you have can be PM'd to me, and I will put answers in the next post below.
Happy writing, everyone.
